The Whole Building Design Guide Committee Meeting WBDG
9:00am – 2:00pm
The Board of Direction and Advisory Committee of the WBDG will meet by invitation only. Inquiries to attend should be forwarded to dfernandez@nibs.org.
The WBDG is the only web-based portal providing government and industry practitioners with one-stop access to up-to-date information on a wide range of building-related guidance, criteria and technology from a 'whole buildings' perspective. Currently organized into two major categories-Design Guidance and Project Management-at the heart of the WBDG are Resource Pages, reductive summaries on particular topics.
Closed to committee members.
For more information: www.wbdg.org

ANSI Technical Committee Meeting
Hosted by GBI
9:00am – 5:00pm

For more information: www.thegbi.org

The Facility Maintenance and Operation Committee (FMOC) Meeting
2:30pm – 5:00pm

FMOC is a NIBS committee focusing on the improved performance and longevity of buildings and building systems through more consistent, effective, and proper facility maintenance and operation. The FMOC has established the following three objectives:
• To increase maintenance and operations influence in the facility acquisition process;
• To promote the sharing and integration of facilities maintenance and operations procedures and information; and
• To identify and disseminate "best" practices for the maintenance and operations of facilities.

Current activities consist of the development of the Maintenance and Operations Section of the Whole Building Design Guide, www.wbdg.org, the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE), a project to develop an interoperable, open standard data exchange for construction submittal information coordinated with the National Building Information Model Standard, and the International Alliance for Interoperability, and innovative tools for maintenance training and collaboration.

Free and open to all attendees, no pre-registration required.

For more information:
www.nibs.org/fmoc.html
www.iai-na.org

Wednesday, December 12

Federal Facility Council
Standing Committee on Emerging Technologies Meeting
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Facility Information Council (FIC) Annual Meeting
12:30pm – 2:30pm
Mission
Improve the performance of facilities over their full lifecycle by fostering a common, standard and integrated life-cycle information model for the A/E/C & FM industry. This information model will allow for the free flow of graphic and non-graphic information among all parties to the process of creating and sustaining the built environment, and will work to coordinate U.S. efforts with related activities taking place internationally.

Agenda
The National Institute of Building Sciences has emerged at the center of integration efforts in the construction industry as one of its roles. While many prestigious organizations develop standards for their aspect of the construction industry, NIBS brings them all together and is coordinating the outcome. NIBS only agenda is the advancement of building sciences and has demonstrated itself as a non-threatening environment for both the public and private sector to work together in advancing the building sciences for this country and the world. The Facility Information Council has also been dedicated to that mission since their inception and is now beginning to see the fruits of their labors.

Free and open to all attendees, no pre-registration required.

For more information:
www.nibs.org/FIC.html

Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) Meeting
3:00pm – 5:00pm

Free and open to all attendees, no pre-registration required.

For more information:
www.oscre.org

Thursday, December 13

Green Mechanical Council Member Meeting
8:00am – 5:00pm
Closed to GreenMech members.

For more information:
www.greenmech.org

Specifiers Forum
Hosted by: SCIP
11am to 1pm

The Forum is an open discussion of issues of concern to today’s construction specifiers. This popular annual event held at the CSI Convention and CSI Region conferences always proves to be a lively debate on hot topics and emerging processes. It is an opportunity to share successes and failures within the specifier community and learn for each other.